This week in stories we’re covering at The Debrief, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has been rediscovered and is now rising from its ancient resting place in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile on Mars, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just spotted something in a hilly area of the Red Planet that you have to see; fortunately, the space agency has unveiled it all in stunning new images. And finally, this unusual object should have been “impossible” to create using Iron Age tools… so how did its ancient crafters make it?
Ready to dive deeper? Here’s a look at several of the top stories we’re covering right now at The Debrief…
- Scientists Discover Ancient Genetic Shake-Up That May Explain the Extraordinary Intelligence of Octopuses
- Rare 60,000-Year-Old Discovery Reveals a Hidden Dimension of Neanderthal Technology
- Scientists Create a Real-Life “Lightsaber” That Can Transmit Radio Waves
- Strange Electronic Patterns Caused by These Unusual Superconductors Could Lead to Better Quantum Computers
- Dark Matter May Come From Primordial Black Holes Hiding in the Fifth Dimension
- Flying Through a Magnetic Switchback, the ESA’s Solar Orbiter Provides Crucial New Space Weather Data
- Mysterious Death at Russian Plague Lab Sparks International Alarm as U.S. Officials Seek Answers
- “We Can Finally Observe Schrödinger’s Cat in Real Life”: Breakthrough Uses Quantum Spin to Move a Levitating Diamond
- A 1,100-Mile-Long Cloud on Mars is Defying Physics—This Unexpected Discovery May Reveal Why
- Astronomers Find Evidence of a “Phoenix Planet” Born From the Remains of Its Dead Star
- An Ancient Crocodile Was Discovered in Egyptian Rocks Linked to the Great Sphinx—and It Has a Curious Connection to Giza’s Ancient Guardian
- Scientists Report First Direct Observation of Electrons’ Strange Quantum Geometry
- Strange Signals, Ancient Glyphs, and Rogue DNA—The Latest from The Debrief
- In the Quest for Life Beyond Earth, a Nanotech Breakthrough Could Supercharge the Search Using Electrical Sensing
- Scientists Studied Decades of Magic Tricks—and Revealed Something Strange About How the Brain Sees Reality